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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by judge2020 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:57AM (#28152498)
> Or extend the notarization system such that adding another store adds another notarization authority to check.

This assumes those App Stores themselves are either audited or verified by Apple to provide a level of verification to prevent such apps from just being submitted unsandboxed and/or the platform notarizing every app without question - which I can assure you is not what the policy makers nor the people behind the funding for this bill (collation for app fairness most likely, Epic second most likely) will accept.

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Re:Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote a... by kbenson on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:52AM (#28157051)
> This assumes those App Stores themselves are either audited or verified by Apple to provide a level of verification to prevent such apps from just being submitted unsandboxed and/or the platform notarizing every app without question

No, it very specifically doesn't. It would be Apple allowing another authority to also shoulder this load, after the user has specifically said they want to also trust that authority.

I have no idea how you could come to the conclusion the Apple would need to verify everything in a discussion about a way in which Apple would not need to be the only entity verifying everything.

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